Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting to the Biotech companies that are in the Germantown Innovation Center Incubator space. Jerry Godwin, The Business Incubator Manger kindly gave me a tour of the space. It has nice shared large equipment for biotech's as well as 11 wet labs and hoods. There is some biotech space availability, which is lucky because the Shady Grove Innovation Center is shutting down this summer for repurposing (NIST will be a big future user with tech start-ups). So, all the SGIC biotechs will need to find a new home, 24 wet labs will be gone. MoCo and surrounds are sadly short on biotech incubator space. MoCo may be losing businesses to places like Baltimore's BioInnovation Center and Frederick Innovative Technology Center. However, even worse, is when these inevitably fill up, our companies may have to look out of state for appropriate start-up facilities.